Daniel H. W. Leighton

The paper identifies methyl 3-methyl-2-butenoate (MMB) as a male-derived volatile sex pheromone in nematodes, showing it is attractive to females and hermaphrodites and mimics a predator's chemical cues.

This study identifies cyclohexyl acetate as a volatile sex pheromone mimic in Caenorhabditis nematodes, showing it acts as a male-specific attractant through a distinct sensory pathway.

The paper identifies a new TA system in C. elegans with divergent toxin alleles suppressed by distinct mechanisms, including piRNA-mediated silencing in the N2 haplotype.

The paper identifies chromosome 1 in Schmidtea mediterranea as a sex-primed autosome through genomic analysis showing restricted recombination and sex-specific gene expression.

The paper studies transcriptomic changes in C. elegans during the transition to an endogenous female state and finds that sperm loss drives some aging-related gene expression changes.